[Mediawiki-l] SOLVED (was: hard disk crash: try to recover the wiki. (Mediawiki 1.9.3 mysql))

[Uwe Brauer]

>>>>> On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 03:56:05 +0600, Nyamul Hassan <mnhassan at usa.net> wrote:

   > First you need to recover the database, and see if all is in order, before
   > you can be certain of no data loss.  To do that, don't only copy the
   > "maqwiki" folder, but I would recommend the whole "/var/lib/mysql" (if that
   > is your mysql data folder).

Your trick did not work, since I could not restart the mysql
server after having copied the entire directory but when I
copied the dir /var/lib/mysql/maqwiki *and* the ibfile1
_then_ I can connect to the db!!!!


Thanks

Uwe Brauer